81.   Mauro Guerra, a deputy from the dissident group, said they backed the idea of pension reform but would seek some modification in the Dini plan.

82.   Mark James called for an alcohol ban at major golf events, an idea backed by Montgomerie.

83.   Most of the new reformist lawmakers from Tehran back the idea of improving relations with the United States.

84.   National broadcaster NHK also quoted Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi as backing the idea.

85.   NATO ministers backed the idea of new contact-group diplomacy with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic aimed at squeezing the Bosnian Serbs.

86.   Officials in China, eying the economic benefits from a more open border, back that idea.

87.   On Thursday, all political parties backed the idea of building a Holocaust memorial in the German capital.

88.   Russia has strongly opposed NATO airstrikes, but backs the idea of OSCE monitors.

89.   Sen. Jesse Helms, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, backs that idea.

90.   Several lawmakers had backed the idea.